Molding



(No Model.) L. LAURENSE.

" M01ding..

No. 242,943. Patented June 14, |ss1.-

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LEONARD LAURENSE, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

MOLDING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 242,943, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed February 17, 1881.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD LAURENSE, of Detroit, \Vayne county, and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in a Molding and Method of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new improvements in the formation of molding, particularly designed for room-molding, such as is employed with suitable hooks for hanging pictures; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and mode of making such molding, all as more fully heri inafter set forth.

Figure 1 is an end elevation of a stick upon one side of which has been formed a double molding, and from which my improved molding is produced, a section of which is shown in Fig. 2. r

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a stick which has passed through a proper machine and has had formed upon one face the double molding a a, of any desired form. I next pass the stick to aproper saw, which longitudinally saws the stick on the line 0 d, thus forming two strips of molding. I then pass these sticks to a suitable saw, which longitudinally severs them on the line 0 e, and the mold-. ing is then ready to be finished in the ordinary manner. i

From the above it will be seen that the molding is p1 oduced from a strip substantially rectangular in cross-section, and when finished the general rectangular figure of its upper edges to its back and front is preserved.

By this construction the back of the molding is formed of two plane surfaces at obtuse (N0 model.)

angles to each other, the wider plane being the back proper, and designed to rest against the wall, thereby giving a greater overhang to the upper member or crown of the molding, and presenting abolder appearance than when constructed in the ordinary manner. It will be found impossible to crowd the molding so closely against the ceiling as to prevent the easy insertion of a picture-hook.

By forming my molding in this manner I save considerable expense in the manufacture of the knives for cutting the molding, as they can be much narrower, inasmuch as they are not compelled to cut away so much of the face of the stick as when formed in the ordinary manner, and 1 also make considerable saving in material.

That I claim as my invention is-- 1. The method herein described of making picture-molding, consisting inv first forming on the face of a single stick a double molding, next in dividing said strip to form two single moldings, and then in separating from the back of each section a strip triangular in crosssection, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. As a new article ofmanufaclure, a picturernolding having its back formed in two planes at an obtuse angle, the upper plane thereof being at right angles, or nearly so, to its upper edge, said moldingbeing provided. with a hookreceiving groove in its face, substantially as described.

LEONARD LAURENSE.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, GHARLEs J. HUNT. 

